Experience with Labrum tear of the hip?

My 15-year-old daughter has that. Cheer injury. She's been doing PT the past couple of months at Ochsner Elite in Baton Rouge and is taking a prescription anti-inflammatory at night. We're doing our best to avoid surgery. The docs at there said something like 70% of athletes get this and most just manage the symptoms. It's not fixable though, unless you have the surgery. Hers has gotten manageable with the regimen we're doing.

Why is surgery going to be necessary?

Recovery is long and a bitch, and is not always successful

Reconsider prolonged conservative care

I’ve had both hips done. Left labrum tore in 2013 while running a marathon. I knew immediately when it happened. Tried conservative approach first to manage it but that failed. Had a scope and labral repair. Ran a half marathon 7 months after that surgery and a full marathon 8 months after that.
Right hip tore in 2016 while running that same marathon course but I didn’t realize it at the time. It was only after the rest of my body stopped hurting that I knew something was wrong. Had right hip scoped and labral repair. Orthopod told me that my labrum looked like it had been chewed up. He knew I liked to be active so attempted to fix it. It failed 5 weeks later. It never really stopped hurting after the surgery. We tried conservative measures to alleviate the pain but nothing worked. Ended up with a revision scope that showed my labrum had retorn beyond the repair. At that time, labral replacement wasn’t a thing so he actually removed it entirely. Now they can do a graft to replace the defective labrum.

I can no longer run because my right hip is essentially bone on bone. I will need a hip replacement at some point for that hip.

My hips don’t really bother me much now. But like others have said, the recovery is a bitch. I was on crutches for 6 weeks, non weight bearing the first week and then 50% for 4 weeks, total weight the last week. That might have changed as well since 2016.

While I can no longer run, I do remain very active by waking at least 10,000 steps a day and strength training 4 days a week (regular strength, not cross fit per my orthopod). There are times when my right hip bothers me (weather change due to arthritis) but I can take Mobic or ibuprofen and it goes away. My left hip has never given me the first problem since the repair in 2013.

Once you get past the first few weeks, recovery does get easier. Just do the PT and follow the doctor’s orders of restricting movement of that leg/hip right after surgery (no external rotation or going past 90 degrees)

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I’ve had both hips done. Left labrum tore in 2013 while running a marathon. I knew immediately when it happened. Tried conservative approach first to manage it but that failed. Had a scope and labral repair. Ran a half marathon 7 months after that surgery and a full marathon 8 months after that.
Right hip tore in 2016 while running that same marathon course but I didn’t realize it at the time. It was only after the rest of my body stopped hurting that I knew something was wrong. Had right hip scoped and labral repair. Orthopod told me that my labrum looked like it had been chewed up. He knew I liked to be active so attempted to fix it. It failed 5 weeks later. It never really stopped hurting after the surgery. We tried conservative measures to alleviate the pain but nothing worked. Ended up with a revision scope that showed my labrum had retorn beyond the repair. At that time, labral replacement wasn’t a thing so he actually removed it entirely. Now they can do a graft to replace the defective labrum.

I can no longer run

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Well no f'ing shite, most would have figured that out after the first major surgery.

I’ve got same thing. Basically told me nothing could be done… will be going back to see why I wasn’t a candidate for repair.

Army buddy had this. He was med boarded and discharged. Has a nice rating though. He seems to be doing okay in the civilian sector but its definitely been a life long physical change.

Wish you well.

How old are you?

I’ve got one now. Need to get the surgery. It flairs up when I do anything athletic. It’s been solid for a few months, ran around at lacrosse practice today modeling a drill, and it’s sore tonight.

Did it in high school. They did not recommend surgery. It sucked. Was hard to walk for months.

Perhaps the proper term is distraction